The deputy chairman of the House Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, Hon Nkem Abonta, has blasted government’s war against corruption, saying it is insincere and does not have the seriousness required to address the problem. Abonta ...
Gunmen on Saturday night, Opened fire on Mourners and killed at least 8 and injured scores in Kaduna Village.
The Gunmen Men who stormed Gida Village in Zango Kataf Local government of Kaduna State, stage the attack at about 11 pm last night.
A resident of the village told our correspondent that "I have counted 8 death bodies now."
"They stormed the village and went straight to the house of our late grand father who died last week, and started shooting at the people in the house who gathered to celebrate his life; our grand father lived a long life. They came with guns," he said.
Second Republic Senate President, Chief Joseph Wayas, has said that since. The Nigerian does not provide for any president to rule for more than eight years, President Goodluck Jonathan is automatically disqualified from the 2015 presidential race. Sen...
Leaders of the Boko Haram group have dissociated themselves from the recent bombings, killings and burning of markets in some parts of Borno State. The organisation’s second in command, Shiekh Abu Mohammed Abdulaziz, told newsmen yesterday in Mai...
The Police on Saturday arrested no fewer than seven persons for allegedly assaulting policemen who were sent to monitor the monthly enviromental sanitation in the State. The incident occurred in Elite road,Idi-Aba,Abeokutanarea of the town,where ...
Following rumours making the round over plans by terror groups operating under the platform of the Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, Jama’atu Ansaral Muslimana Fi Biladis –Sudan to launch attack on Lagos, the state government has implor...
Not less that thirty-seven Civil Society groups in the six states of the Niger Delta at the weekend, offered to accompany the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, to the House of Representatives public hearing on the petition filed by th...
The Sokoto State government said yesterday it spent N3 billion to execute various Millennium Development Goals projects in its 23 local governments within three years . The state Commissioner for Local Governments, Alhaji Faruk Malami, told the News Ag...
Former Senate President Ken Nnamani has been slated to be the chairman of the second National Discourse on Local Government Autonomy billed for Tuesday next week at the Shehu Musa Yar ‘Adua Conference Centre, Abuja. Speaking with journalists in L...
Federal College of Education, Technical, Gombe, has advised all its students staying off campus, particularly residents of London Maidorowa and Kagarawal quarters, to relocate to the campus for safety reasons.
The Provost of the College, Dr Abbas Gimba, gave the advice in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Friday, saying that all the places mentioned were volatile and not good for students to live.
He said the advice was prompted by the recent incident at London Maidorowa, where one of the students was shot dead when security personnel invaded the area in search of criminals.
He said the school authority had to relocate some of the students whose houses were demolished when the security personnel raided the area in search of criminals' hideouts last month.
“In spite the fact that all accommodation in the campus was allocated we still created a space for them.
“The college even gave them money to buy clothes and food because most of their belongings were destroyed,“ he said.
The provost said by next semester the college would privatise its accommodation and make arrangements for people to come and start building the facilities because government had stopped funding the construction of hostels.
The provost said the college's major challenge was finance and expressed the hope that government would fund the institution adequately.
President Goodluck Jonathan in Malabo on Friday called for the establishment of a secretariat for the Africa-South-America (ASA) Summit.
Jonathan made the call in an address at the third Africa-South America Summit, saying that the establishment of the secretariat would consolidate the various institutions that would drive the collaboration.
He said it would also help to place the regions at an `advantageous position’ in the wider context of multi-lateral engagements.
``I urge that the secretariat be established without further delay.
``It is not enough to have the Strategic Presidential Committee play the role of an interim secretariat when we have already agreed to establish a permanent secretariat at our previous summit,’’ he said.
Jonathan described Africa and South America as two regions of `immense possibilities’.
He urged the leaders of two continents to take advantage of the summit to give further impetus and practical expression to South-South cooperation which the continents had long been engaged in.
The president lauded President Obiang Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea for hosting the summit, especially when the prospect of having the meeting faced some challenges.
He described the theme of the summit, "Strategies and Mechanism to Strengthen South-South Cooperation", as `a welcome reminder’ of the objectives which the two regions had set for themselves when the partnership was established.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria hosted the first edition of the summit in June 2006 and Venezuela hosted the second edition in 2009.
However, since 2009, efforts to host the summit proved abortive. Equatorial Guinea made a fruitless effort to host the summit in 2012.
The desire of the Rivers Government to complete on-going projects informed its decision to convert a N100 billion bond to loan, Gov. Chibuike Amaechi said in Port Harcourt on Friday. Amaechi made the clarification shortly after signing into...
A week after suspected gunmen abducted seven expatriates working with SETRACO Construction Company in Jama’are local government area of Bauchi State and 60 days after the same fate befell a French engineer in Katsina State, security operatives in...
The opposition to the eligibility of a Goodluck Jonathan/Namadi Sambo ticket in the 2015 presidential election on grounds of allegedly agreement to run for one term has been described as of constitutional backing. A group under the aegis of Jonathan/Sa...
Indications emerged yesterday that aside the task of fishing out embattled chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina, whose whereabouts remain unknown, the Nigeria Police may have begun fresh probe into the certificates acquired by ...